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f Hm town--
County Court meeting,
County-Cit-y Building.
1:39 p.m. University Board of
Curators meeting, Memorial
Union, Room S16.
p,m. County Community
12Sm:e3erev0tiicnegs, GAednvtriysoHryall.Commission
6:30 p.m. Boone County Red
Cross annual meeting, Flaming
Pit Restaurant.
7 p.m. Planning and Zoning
Commission meeting, County-Cit-y
Building.
8 7 p.m. Parks and Recreation
Commission meeting, Gentry
Hall.
Exhibits
See Sunday's Vibrations
magazine for continuing exhibit
schedule.
I Movie listings on page 15B. J
Insight
Legal team
writes laws
of the state
Little noticed team
sets law of the land
By Jim Cloud
Missourian staff writer
JEFFERSON CITY As wife of
former State Treasurer M. E. Morris,
Margery Morris had the chance for an
inside view of state government few
have.
She didn't need it, however. She was
already a pro concerning the workings
of state government. As a legal
researcher, she literally had been
writing the laws of Missouri off and on
since 1947.
The state legal research staff is
housed directly beneath the governor's
office. The research office's lighted
ceiling panels set off the distinctive
oval shape that it shares with the office
above.
Mrs. Morris's desk is in one of the
many small partitioned ateas which
outline the room. Here, she works
putting the. ideas of state legLslatoxs-Int- o their written form of legal terms
and precise language.
She graduated from the University's
School of Law in 1947, the only woman
in her class. Instead of setting up a
general law practice, she started work
as one of the handful of researchers on
the legal staff that was organized under
the then new state constitution of 1945.
Dressed comfortably in a pink suit
and wearing numerous pieces of
turquoise jewelry, Mrs. Morris says she
is not sure she would do it again if she
had the chance to start over. The
challenge of a private law practice
would be too appealing to resist. She
says, however, she enjoys her work.
She has not worked continuously. She
didn't work from 1950 to 1S56 so that she
could stay home with her two children.
She again took off from 1967 to 1970. She
(See LEGAL, page 12A)
STAT- - hi;.7i;?i: v. rccrr.TY :?33i
illiT LQV.RY L.T.
CJLU1I3IA, MO. 65H01
ST. 2-- 1 -- 1-74
69th Year No. 235 f.VW Morning! Il ThuntUtiy. Jitnr 2.?. 977 2 Sections 2 I'ugrs 15 Cents
By Betty Connor and Jeanne Crouse
Missourian staff writer
Score one for some downtown mer-chants.
The City Council Wednesday in a 4--3
vote, approved traffic changes on
Broadway that would allow easier exit
from the downtown loop.
The traffic islands on Broadway at
Sixth and Tenth streets will be trimmed
to allow traffic on Broadway to exit the
loop by continuing straight. City traffic
engineer Max Berends has said the
changes could be made in two days.
The changes were tabled 4 to 3 at
Monday's council meeting. But in-creased
pressure from some downtown
merchants who said sales have been
hurt since the traffic changes were
made and an informal survey showing
widespread dissatisfaction with the
loop prompted city officials to hold the
special meeting less than 48 hours later.
Other business men support the loop
which was designed to improve con-ditions
downtown.
Fourth Ward Councilman Jim
Goodrich told an upset Downtown Task
Force Tuesday he was willing to
reverse his vote to table the changes.
He also said he would approve them.
Goodrich's move ensured that the
changes had enough votes for approval.
But Wednesday's meeting gave the
wait-and-s-ee advocates another chance
to speak.
"We are deciding to change a plan
that was developed over a period of
years. It doesn't do justice to the people
who worked on it; and it doesn't do
justice to the citizen's money that has
been spent on it," Sixth Ward Coun-cilman
Clyde Wilson said.
He said the council should wait two to
three weeks for results of a poll of
downtown shoppers, merchants and
business persons. The concerns of
downtown merchants, he said, "should
not be influencing the council at this
stage of operation."
But Mayor Les Proctor said the
changes were recommended by the
task force, "a blue-ribbo- n group of
citizens charged with monitoring the
loop's progress," and should be ac-cepted.
Proctor, chairman of. the City
Planning and Zoning Commission when
it recommended the downtown loop
plan almost three years ago, said he
has "not waivered one bit from my
conviction that the loop is conceptually
sound."
First Ward Councilman Pat Barnes
and Fourth Ward Councilwoman Diane
Farish also voted for the changes.
The results of an informal survey
(See MAJORITY, page 11A)
County
will seek
tax payments
ByKarlPolzer
Missourian staff writer
County officials said Wednesday they
plan to approach two industries that
pay no county property tax and discuss
the possibility of their making in-lieu-of-
-tax
payments.
County Assessor Tom Drane and
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh told the
Columbia Missourian they will ap-proach
Clow Corp. and A.B. Chance Co.
of Centralia with the proposal as soon
as their schedules permit.
"We need to sit down quietly and talk
to them about it," Drane said.
County taxes amount to $1.85 for
every $100 of assessed property.
Drane said he is not sure of the
assessed valuation of the two com-panies.
But he said taxes on property
. assessed at more than $1 million would
- net-th- e county at least $10,000 and other
taxing bodfes about $3,009. "We could
use $10,000 worth of gravel or a gravel
truck," Drane said.
Two of three industries leasing
facilities financed with city revenue
bonds McGraw-Ediso- n Co. and
Square D have agreed to pay the
equivalent of all city, school district
and county taxes, said Robert Black,
assistant to the Columbia city
manager.
When a revenue bond issue is floated
to build an industry's plant, property
tax can not be collected because the
facility is municipally owned.
The City Council adopted a policy a
few years ago whereby it would not
issue revenue bonds unless the industry
involved agreed to pay full in-lieu-of- -tax
payments. The current council does
not consider the policy binding.
Clow Corp. pays full in-lieu- -of city
taxes and is on an increasing five-ye-ar
schedule to pay the full equivalent of
Columbia School District taxes. Clow
Corp. does not pay in-lieu-of--tax
revenue to the county . Drane said.
. 'If one pays, I think they ought to all
pay it If Square D is willing to pay it
and McGraw-Ediso- n is willing to pay it,
I think if Clow were approached
correctly they would pay it, too," Drane
said.
WASHINGTON (UPI) The former
head of South Korean intelligence
testified Wednesday that President
Park Chung Hee ordered a "bribery
operation" to buy influence on Capitol
Hill.
Testifying under heavy security
because of reported threats on his life,
Kim Hyung Wook also told a
congressional hearing that Tongsun
Park, a wealthy businessman and
Washington socialite, ran the covert
bribery scheme in the early 1970s and
once gave him a list of 15 to 20
Related stories page 8A
congressmen ticketed for $200,000 in
payoffs.
Kim, a political foe of President
Park, defected to the United States in
1973. He said he had burned the list and
could no .longer identify the
congressmen because American names
sound alike to him.
Kim, 52, headed the Korean CIA from
1963 to 1989. Appearing before a House
International Relations subcommittee,
he became the first witness to testify
publicly in any of the various
congressional probes into alleged
Korean influence peddling.
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-----
StecEa p. 8jsaSc&
Road foreman of engines Curley Bagley, Moberly, inspects
damage to a train after it collided with a Missouri Concrete and
Building Supply Co. truck near the company offices on Paris Road.
Neither the driver of the train, Steve Sasek, Moberly, nor the driver
of the truck, Robert Edwards, 152 Pinegrove Trailer Court, was
injured in the crash.
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The stars on the above diagram indicate the location of the changes
to be made on the loop. Traffic islands on Broadway at Sixth and
Tenth streets will be trimmed to allow traffic on Broadway to exit
the loop by continuing straight.
Gasification process
viewed as hazardous
By Larry Katzenstein
Missourian staff writer
A University professor says the
process that may be used in the pro-posed
coal gasification plants in north-ern
and mid-Misso- uri may spew out
high levels of a sometimes lethal and
carcinogenic compound.
In a letter sent May 3 to W. G.
Schlinger, manager of the Texaco pilot
coal gasification plant in Montebellov
Calif., Marc de Chazal said, "the Texa-co
process appears uniquely suited to
the production and release of this extra-ordinarily
dangerous substance (nickel
cartwwiyl)."
De Chazal said the compound's toxic-ity
is listed in "Dangerous Properties of
Industrial Materials" as "high, may
cause death or permanent damage
after very short exposure to very small
amounts." De Chazal is a professor of
chemical engineering and a member of
the Missourians for Responsible
Energy Development whose members
oppose the project.
In his response to de Chazal Tues-day,
Schlinger wrote that he does not
believe the Texaco process "presents
such an environmental hazard and, in
fact, (the Texaco process) is environ-mentally
preferable to alternative
modes of coal utilization."
Although no firm decision has been
announced on what process the gas-ification
plants would use, the Texaco
process was the only technology de-tailed
in the press packet released by
proponents when the project was an-nounced
March 12. The engineering
firm conducting the $50.00 phase two
study said May 23 the Texaco process
"will generally be emphasized" in the
study which is expected to be complet-ed
July 20.
The controversy revolves around
whether the Texaco process or any
combined cycle coal gasification
process will release dangerous
amounts of nickel carbonyl.
Schlinger says that most of the nickel
in the coal will end up in the waste slag
at the botton of the gasif ier and that the
temperature in the gasifier is too high
-- for tfi6"i?5Iftpdffira nickel carbonyl to
form.
However, de Chazal cites a 1975
report on ccal gasification issued by the
Battelle Institute that says as much as
25 per cent of the nickel entering a coal
gasification plant cannot be accounted
for.
De Chazal says that Texaco "may be
right that their plant produces no nickel
carbonyl, but they didn't address them-selves
to the combined cycle plant, and
for a very good reason. They have no
idea what will happen when their gasifi-er
and a combined cycle plant are con-nected."
A combined cycle plant uses the heat
from the gasifier to produce additional
steam to run conventional turbines.
De Chazal says that although the
temperatures in the gasifier may be too
high for nickel carbonyl to form, when
(See PLANT, page 12A )
ByJimWestfaD
Missourian staff writer
Boone County farmers are saying
that the 1.3 inches of rain that has fallen
since Sunday has given them new hope.
But the threat of hot, dry weather and
deteriorating crops is far from over.
"We need another rain in a week, in
this most critical time," Don Emery,
county Agriculture Stabilization and
Conservation director, said Wednes-day.
Wheat harvesters are going to be
slowed by the rain, Emery said, not be-cause
the sofl is too wet, but because the
moisture level of the wheat is too high.
Grain buyers require that the wheat
they buy have less than 12 per cent
moisture so it will not spoil when it is
stored.
Wheat farmers may not be very
eager to sell their wheat in today's
market in any event Tuesday, the Co-lumbia
MFA Crop Exchange was buy-ing
wheat for a low $1.87 a busfaeL Wed-nesday
the price was $1.82. And there's
not much chance the price will get any
better, Emery said.
The abundance of wheat in most of
the country and in other wheat produc-ing
areas of the world has kept fie
market price hovering around two dm-Lar- s,
less than half the parity price of$S
a bushel.
Parity is the price a farmer would
need to get for his wheat to have the
same purchasing power he would have
had in the 1914 base period. Simply, it
means that at today's two-doll- ar price,
farmers have to harvest 2fe times the
acreage, or their yield per acre must in-crease
2M times, to have the same pur
chasing power they had in 1914.
Emery said the wheat yields in Boone
County so far this year are better than
expected. "The average yield around
here is 33 bushels an acre," he said,
"and the lowest we've had so far is 30.
We've had some that yielded 50 bushels
an acre."
Emery said while the rain has slowed
the wheat harvest, it has also encour-aged
double-cro- p soybean farmers to
no-ti- ll plant their soybeans. "There
wasn't enough moisture before," he
says, "but the rain will encourage more
to do so."
While Kansans are cursing heavy
rains and flooding that have destroyed
some crops, Missouri will continue to be
plagued with too little rain and too
much heat, according to the National
Weather Service. Even the 1.3 inches
that have fallen this week do not bring
this area up to its average accumulated
rainfall for this time of year.
Since January 1, the weather service
at Columbia Regional Airport has re-corded
15.73 inches (39.3 cm). The aver-age
for the period January 1 through
June 21 is 17.79 inches (44.5 cm). This
year's rainfall is more than last year's,
13.72 inches (343 cm.) by this date, but
as weatherman Russ Marshall said,
"We can't forget that last year was a
record-dr- y year. We came into this
year dry and we're still trying to catch
up."
Ninety per cent of the soil in the state
was short of moisture last Friday, as-cordi-ng
to the Missouri Crop and lives-tock
Reporting Service. Cnly 10 per
cent had adequate moisture.

f Hm town--
County Court meeting,
County-Cit-y Building.
1:39 p.m. University Board of
Curators meeting, Memorial
Union, Room S16.
p,m. County Community
12Sm:e3erev0tiicnegs, GAednvtriysoHryall.Commission
6:30 p.m. Boone County Red
Cross annual meeting, Flaming
Pit Restaurant.
7 p.m. Planning and Zoning
Commission meeting, County-Cit-y
Building.
8 7 p.m. Parks and Recreation
Commission meeting, Gentry
Hall.
Exhibits
See Sunday's Vibrations
magazine for continuing exhibit
schedule.
I Movie listings on page 15B. J
Insight
Legal team
writes laws
of the state
Little noticed team
sets law of the land
By Jim Cloud
Missourian staff writer
JEFFERSON CITY As wife of
former State Treasurer M. E. Morris,
Margery Morris had the chance for an
inside view of state government few
have.
She didn't need it, however. She was
already a pro concerning the workings
of state government. As a legal
researcher, she literally had been
writing the laws of Missouri off and on
since 1947.
The state legal research staff is
housed directly beneath the governor's
office. The research office's lighted
ceiling panels set off the distinctive
oval shape that it shares with the office
above.
Mrs. Morris's desk is in one of the
many small partitioned ateas which
outline the room. Here, she works
putting the. ideas of state legLslatoxs-Int- o their written form of legal terms
and precise language.
She graduated from the University's
School of Law in 1947, the only woman
in her class. Instead of setting up a
general law practice, she started work
as one of the handful of researchers on
the legal staff that was organized under
the then new state constitution of 1945.
Dressed comfortably in a pink suit
and wearing numerous pieces of
turquoise jewelry, Mrs. Morris says she
is not sure she would do it again if she
had the chance to start over. The
challenge of a private law practice
would be too appealing to resist. She
says, however, she enjoys her work.
She has not worked continuously. She
didn't work from 1950 to 1S56 so that she
could stay home with her two children.
She again took off from 1967 to 1970. She
(See LEGAL, page 12A)
STAT- - hi;.7i;?i: v. rccrr.TY :?33i
illiT LQV.RY L.T.
CJLU1I3IA, MO. 65H01
ST. 2-- 1 -- 1-74
69th Year No. 235 f.VW Morning! Il ThuntUtiy. Jitnr 2.?. 977 2 Sections 2 I'ugrs 15 Cents
By Betty Connor and Jeanne Crouse
Missourian staff writer
Score one for some downtown mer-chants.
The City Council Wednesday in a 4--3
vote, approved traffic changes on
Broadway that would allow easier exit
from the downtown loop.
The traffic islands on Broadway at
Sixth and Tenth streets will be trimmed
to allow traffic on Broadway to exit the
loop by continuing straight. City traffic
engineer Max Berends has said the
changes could be made in two days.
The changes were tabled 4 to 3 at
Monday's council meeting. But in-creased
pressure from some downtown
merchants who said sales have been
hurt since the traffic changes were
made and an informal survey showing
widespread dissatisfaction with the
loop prompted city officials to hold the
special meeting less than 48 hours later.
Other business men support the loop
which was designed to improve con-ditions
downtown.
Fourth Ward Councilman Jim
Goodrich told an upset Downtown Task
Force Tuesday he was willing to
reverse his vote to table the changes.
He also said he would approve them.
Goodrich's move ensured that the
changes had enough votes for approval.
But Wednesday's meeting gave the
wait-and-s-ee advocates another chance
to speak.
"We are deciding to change a plan
that was developed over a period of
years. It doesn't do justice to the people
who worked on it; and it doesn't do
justice to the citizen's money that has
been spent on it," Sixth Ward Coun-cilman
Clyde Wilson said.
He said the council should wait two to
three weeks for results of a poll of
downtown shoppers, merchants and
business persons. The concerns of
downtown merchants, he said, "should
not be influencing the council at this
stage of operation."
But Mayor Les Proctor said the
changes were recommended by the
task force, "a blue-ribbo- n group of
citizens charged with monitoring the
loop's progress," and should be ac-cepted.
Proctor, chairman of. the City
Planning and Zoning Commission when
it recommended the downtown loop
plan almost three years ago, said he
has "not waivered one bit from my
conviction that the loop is conceptually
sound."
First Ward Councilman Pat Barnes
and Fourth Ward Councilwoman Diane
Farish also voted for the changes.
The results of an informal survey
(See MAJORITY, page 11A)
County
will seek
tax payments
ByKarlPolzer
Missourian staff writer
County officials said Wednesday they
plan to approach two industries that
pay no county property tax and discuss
the possibility of their making in-lieu-of-
-tax
payments.
County Assessor Tom Drane and
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh told the
Columbia Missourian they will ap-proach
Clow Corp. and A.B. Chance Co.
of Centralia with the proposal as soon
as their schedules permit.
"We need to sit down quietly and talk
to them about it," Drane said.
County taxes amount to $1.85 for
every $100 of assessed property.
Drane said he is not sure of the
assessed valuation of the two com-panies.
But he said taxes on property
. assessed at more than $1 million would
- net-th- e county at least $10,000 and other
taxing bodfes about $3,009. "We could
use $10,000 worth of gravel or a gravel
truck," Drane said.
Two of three industries leasing
facilities financed with city revenue
bonds McGraw-Ediso- n Co. and
Square D have agreed to pay the
equivalent of all city, school district
and county taxes, said Robert Black,
assistant to the Columbia city
manager.
When a revenue bond issue is floated
to build an industry's plant, property
tax can not be collected because the
facility is municipally owned.
The City Council adopted a policy a
few years ago whereby it would not
issue revenue bonds unless the industry
involved agreed to pay full in-lieu-of- -tax
payments. The current council does
not consider the policy binding.
Clow Corp. pays full in-lieu- -of city
taxes and is on an increasing five-ye-ar
schedule to pay the full equivalent of
Columbia School District taxes. Clow
Corp. does not pay in-lieu-of--tax
revenue to the county . Drane said.
. 'If one pays, I think they ought to all
pay it If Square D is willing to pay it
and McGraw-Ediso- n is willing to pay it,
I think if Clow were approached
correctly they would pay it, too," Drane
said.
WASHINGTON (UPI) The former
head of South Korean intelligence
testified Wednesday that President
Park Chung Hee ordered a "bribery
operation" to buy influence on Capitol
Hill.
Testifying under heavy security
because of reported threats on his life,
Kim Hyung Wook also told a
congressional hearing that Tongsun
Park, a wealthy businessman and
Washington socialite, ran the covert
bribery scheme in the early 1970s and
once gave him a list of 15 to 20
Related stories page 8A
congressmen ticketed for $200,000 in
payoffs.
Kim, a political foe of President
Park, defected to the United States in
1973. He said he had burned the list and
could no .longer identify the
congressmen because American names
sound alike to him.
Kim, 52, headed the Korean CIA from
1963 to 1989. Appearing before a House
International Relations subcommittee,
he became the first witness to testify
publicly in any of the various
congressional probes into alleged
Korean influence peddling.
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s; '- - i"cr - i
-----
StecEa p. 8jsaSc&
Road foreman of engines Curley Bagley, Moberly, inspects
damage to a train after it collided with a Missouri Concrete and
Building Supply Co. truck near the company offices on Paris Road.
Neither the driver of the train, Steve Sasek, Moberly, nor the driver
of the truck, Robert Edwards, 152 Pinegrove Trailer Court, was
injured in the crash.
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The stars on the above diagram indicate the location of the changes
to be made on the loop. Traffic islands on Broadway at Sixth and
Tenth streets will be trimmed to allow traffic on Broadway to exit
the loop by continuing straight.
Gasification process
viewed as hazardous
By Larry Katzenstein
Missourian staff writer
A University professor says the
process that may be used in the pro-posed
coal gasification plants in north-ern
and mid-Misso- uri may spew out
high levels of a sometimes lethal and
carcinogenic compound.
In a letter sent May 3 to W. G.
Schlinger, manager of the Texaco pilot
coal gasification plant in Montebellov
Calif., Marc de Chazal said, "the Texa-co
process appears uniquely suited to
the production and release of this extra-ordinarily
dangerous substance (nickel
cartwwiyl)."
De Chazal said the compound's toxic-ity
is listed in "Dangerous Properties of
Industrial Materials" as "high, may
cause death or permanent damage
after very short exposure to very small
amounts." De Chazal is a professor of
chemical engineering and a member of
the Missourians for Responsible
Energy Development whose members
oppose the project.
In his response to de Chazal Tues-day,
Schlinger wrote that he does not
believe the Texaco process "presents
such an environmental hazard and, in
fact, (the Texaco process) is environ-mentally
preferable to alternative
modes of coal utilization."
Although no firm decision has been
announced on what process the gas-ification
plants would use, the Texaco
process was the only technology de-tailed
in the press packet released by
proponents when the project was an-nounced
March 12. The engineering
firm conducting the $50.00 phase two
study said May 23 the Texaco process
"will generally be emphasized" in the
study which is expected to be complet-ed
July 20.
The controversy revolves around
whether the Texaco process or any
combined cycle coal gasification
process will release dangerous
amounts of nickel carbonyl.
Schlinger says that most of the nickel
in the coal will end up in the waste slag
at the botton of the gasif ier and that the
temperature in the gasifier is too high
-- for tfi6"i?5Iftpdffira nickel carbonyl to
form.
However, de Chazal cites a 1975
report on ccal gasification issued by the
Battelle Institute that says as much as
25 per cent of the nickel entering a coal
gasification plant cannot be accounted
for.
De Chazal says that Texaco "may be
right that their plant produces no nickel
carbonyl, but they didn't address them-selves
to the combined cycle plant, and
for a very good reason. They have no
idea what will happen when their gasifi-er
and a combined cycle plant are con-nected."
A combined cycle plant uses the heat
from the gasifier to produce additional
steam to run conventional turbines.
De Chazal says that although the
temperatures in the gasifier may be too
high for nickel carbonyl to form, when
(See PLANT, page 12A )
ByJimWestfaD
Missourian staff writer
Boone County farmers are saying
that the 1.3 inches of rain that has fallen
since Sunday has given them new hope.
But the threat of hot, dry weather and
deteriorating crops is far from over.
"We need another rain in a week, in
this most critical time," Don Emery,
county Agriculture Stabilization and
Conservation director, said Wednes-day.
Wheat harvesters are going to be
slowed by the rain, Emery said, not be-cause
the sofl is too wet, but because the
moisture level of the wheat is too high.
Grain buyers require that the wheat
they buy have less than 12 per cent
moisture so it will not spoil when it is
stored.
Wheat farmers may not be very
eager to sell their wheat in today's
market in any event Tuesday, the Co-lumbia
MFA Crop Exchange was buy-ing
wheat for a low $1.87 a busfaeL Wed-nesday
the price was $1.82. And there's
not much chance the price will get any
better, Emery said.
The abundance of wheat in most of
the country and in other wheat produc-ing
areas of the world has kept fie
market price hovering around two dm-Lar- s,
less than half the parity price of$S
a bushel.
Parity is the price a farmer would
need to get for his wheat to have the
same purchasing power he would have
had in the 1914 base period. Simply, it
means that at today's two-doll- ar price,
farmers have to harvest 2fe times the
acreage, or their yield per acre must in-crease
2M times, to have the same pur
chasing power they had in 1914.
Emery said the wheat yields in Boone
County so far this year are better than
expected. "The average yield around
here is 33 bushels an acre," he said,
"and the lowest we've had so far is 30.
We've had some that yielded 50 bushels
an acre."
Emery said while the rain has slowed
the wheat harvest, it has also encour-aged
double-cro- p soybean farmers to
no-ti- ll plant their soybeans. "There
wasn't enough moisture before," he
says, "but the rain will encourage more
to do so."
While Kansans are cursing heavy
rains and flooding that have destroyed
some crops, Missouri will continue to be
plagued with too little rain and too
much heat, according to the National
Weather Service. Even the 1.3 inches
that have fallen this week do not bring
this area up to its average accumulated
rainfall for this time of year.
Since January 1, the weather service
at Columbia Regional Airport has re-corded
15.73 inches (39.3 cm). The aver-age
for the period January 1 through
June 21 is 17.79 inches (44.5 cm). This
year's rainfall is more than last year's,
13.72 inches (343 cm.) by this date, but
as weatherman Russ Marshall said,
"We can't forget that last year was a
record-dr- y year. We came into this
year dry and we're still trying to catch
up."
Ninety per cent of the soil in the state
was short of moisture last Friday, as-cordi-ng
to the Missouri Crop and lives-tock
Reporting Service. Cnly 10 per
cent had adequate moisture.